Best illustrated books all over the world
Sonia Sánchez is an award-winning illustrator of over twenty picture books for children. She paints with both traditional and digital brushes using layers of texture in her work to evoke emotion and movement.. Her debut picture book, Here I Am (Capstone), earned two starred reviews and was nominated for an […]
Majid Zakeri Younesi – Iranian artist. Winner of children’s book illustration festival (Sharjeh 2023) Zakeri’s artwork for the book has been praised for its beautiful and intense iconography, which re-imagines ancient Islamic miniature painting traditions in a modern context. He is known for blending hand-printing techniques with modern digital art. […]
Elena Antimonova (1945-2002) — graphic artist, watercolourist, illustrator. She was born in Tbilisi, then moved to Latvia, where she studied painting at the Latvian Academy of Arts. Since 1969, she regularly exhibited her works; her personal exhibitions were held in Riga, Tartu, Poland, Venice. The artist designed and illustrated more […]
David Wiesner (born February 5, 1956) is an American illustrator and writer of children’s books, known best for picture books including some that tell stories without words. As an illustrator he has won three Caldecott Medals recognizing the year’s “most distinguished American picture book for children” and he was one […]
Leonard Joseph Weisgard (December 13, 1916 – January 14, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 200 children’s books. He is known best for his collaborations with writer Margaret Wise Brown. Instagram | instagram.com/leonard_weisgard Website | leonardweisgard.com Amazon | Leonard Weisgard
Catarina Sobral is an internationally acclaimed Portuguese author-illustrator who also dabbles in film, theater, and radio. A graduate of graphic design with a masters in illustration, her accolades include—among other things—the International Award for Illustration at the 2014 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the 2023 Portuguese National Illustration Award, and three […]
Born in 1975, Alessandro Sanna is considered one of Italy’s leading contemporary illustrators. He has earned wide recognition across Europe as an illustrator and author, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker. He is a prolific and popular creator of illustrated […]
Elena Vasilievna Safonova (1902-1980) – Russian artist, book illustrator. Graduated from the painting department of VKhUTEIN, where she studied in the studio of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. From 1923, she illustrated books, mainly literature for children and adolescents. In total, she illustrated about 25 books. In 1928-1935, she collaborated with the magazines […]
Michael Roher was born in 1980 in Lower Austria, trained as a social worker in Vienna. His love for the circus, for drawing and design as well as for working with people determines his activities and projects. He has received numerous awards for his children’s books, including: Dixi Children’s Literature […]
Marc Martin is an illustrator and author based in Naarm/Melbourne. He works across a range of commercial projects, murals, editorial work, gallery shows and picture books. He is the author-illustrator of internationally award-winning books, including A Forest, A River, Everything & Everywhere and Masters of Disguise. He has twice been […]
Thea Lu is a Chinese illustrator, designer, and picture book author based in Shanghai. She holds an MA in Strategic Design from Tsinghua University and an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art. Her debut picture book, Here & There, was named one of the Best […]
Lucia Biancalana is an Italian illustrator, author, and designer, born in 1993 in Perugia and now based in Brussels. She studied Industrial Design at La Sapienza University in Rome and later obtained a degree in Illustration at ISIA Urbino. Biancalana is the author of several books, including “Novantanove volte un […]
Peter Goes is a Belgian picture book author and illustrator. He was born in Ghent in 1968 and studied animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). For many years, he worked in theatre as a stage designer, lighting technician, and technical director. Nowadays, he focuses on graphic design, […]
Maia Judith is an author and illustrator of children’s books from Buenos Aires. In her illustrations, she uses rich, vibrant colors, and her soft, rounded shapes create a sense of warmth and volume. When she’s not drawing, she enjoys working in her garden, cooking homemade gnocchi, and dancing in her […]
Anthony Browne (born 1946) is a British writer and illustrator of children’s books. Anthony Browne was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire. His parents ran a small pub, where Anthony and his older brother Michael actually grew up. Anthony became interested in drawing at an early age. In 1967, he graduated from […]
Matthew Cordell is an American author and illustrator. He has illustrated many books for children including works of poetry, novels, and picture books including The Only Fish in the Sea by Philip C. Stead and the Justin Case series by Rachel Vail. He has written and illustrated several picture books […]
Svetlana Davydovna Kim is a Soviet artist and illustrator. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1977. Svetlana Kim was born in Chernivtsi on September 10, 1947. From 1965 to 1969 she studied at the clothing design department at the Vyzhnytsia College of Applied Arts. After graduating […]
Andrea Antinori (born 1992) is an Italian illustrator from Recanati, now based in Bologna. He studied graphic design and illustration at the ISIA in Urbino and at the Escola Massana in Barcelona, and since 2013 has been creating books for both Italian and international publishers. Antinori has illustrated books such […]
Berta Hoerner Hader (1890-1976) and Elmer Stanley Hader (1889-1973) were an American couple who illustrated more than seventy children’s books together, about half of which they wrote. They won the 1948 Caldecott Medal for The Big Snow, and were two Caldecott Award winners (in 1940 for Cock-a-doodle-doo and in 1944 […]
Berta Hoerner Hader (1890-1976) and Elmer Stanley Hader (1889-1973) were an American couple who illustrated more than seventy children’s books together, about half of which they wrote. They won the 1948 Caldecott Medal for The Big Snow, and were two Caldecott Award winners (in 1940 for Cock-a-doodle-doo and in 1944 […]